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Lucile Blanch

1895-1981

Lucile Blanch was an American painter, lithographer and muralist. Her career was largely highlighted as a painter and, during the Great Depression, a muralist because of commissions from the U.S. government via the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture (later renamed Section of Fine Arts). She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933.

Born in Hawley, Minnesota, Blanch studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and the Art Students League in New York City under the likes of Boardman Robinson, Kenneth Hayes Miller and Vincent DuMond. Following her divorce to Arnold Blanch, she moved to Sarasota, Florida, where she taught at Ringling College of Art and Design for a year.

Blanch's work was exhibited at the Whitney Studio Gallery, Corcoran Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy, Art Association of San Francisco. It can be found in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Smithsonian Museum, D.C.; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.

 

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